March 27 deadline for public

artappraiser — Tue, 20 Mar 2018 21:15:25 +0000

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March 27 deadline for public comments as regards losing some very important patient rights under Medicare or Medicaid

Government, doctor or patient — whose health care preferences should be honored?

BY KIM CALLINAN AND KEVIN DÍAZ, OPINION CONTRIBUTORS @ TheHill.com, 03/20/18

[....] The recently created “Conscience and Religious Freedom” division in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights has received little public attention, but it should because it threatens to take away Americans’ access to numerous health care options. The deadline for public comments on this division to the Federal Register is next Tuesday, March 27.

This new division allows health-care providers who object to various procedures to impose their own religious beliefs on their patients by withholding vital information about treatment options from them. This division threatens to impact the availability of all health care options and more specifically end-of life care options and reproductive health-care services. [....]

This is the heart of the debate about whether or not patients get to know what their health care options are. The proposed regulations would expand the government’s reach to withhold Medicare and Medicaid funding to health-care institutions if they do not allow doctors to refuse to advise or perform various health-care services they oppose to the detriment of patient care [.....]

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March 27 deadline for public